{"id":98932,"date":"2026-09-18T13:17:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T20:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/github.blog\/changelog\/2026-09-18-copilot-code-review-an-improved-review-experience"},"modified":"2026-09-18T14:25:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T21:25:02","slug":"copilot-code-review-an-improved-review-experience","status":"publish","type":[3522],"link":"https:\/\/github.blog\/changelog\/2026-09-18-copilot-code-review-an-improved-review-experience","title":{"rendered":"Copilot code review: An improved review experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Copilot code review now gives you a clearer view of how a review changes over time, more intelligently auto-resolves its own suggestions, and generates useful commit messages when you accept eligible suggestions in a batch. These updates help you focus on findings that still need attention and make the resulting commits easier to understand. These updates are now generally available.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"%f0%9f%94%8d-clearer-review-progress-at-a-glance\" id=\"%f0%9f%94%8d-clearer-review-progress-at-a-glance\" ><a class=\"heading-link\" href=\"#%f0%9f%94%8d-clearer-review-progress-at-a-glance\">&#128269; Clearer review progress at a glance<span class=\"heading-hash pl-2 text-italic text-bold\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>The refreshed overview comment shows Copilot&rsquo;s current assessment of your pull request, the review effort level it used, and lists a summary of the findings it identified in its review. Findings are now grouped into:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Open:<\/strong> Issues that have not been addressed yet. 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The prior pull request summary and per-file summaries also remain available.<\/p>\n<p><video loop controls autoplay muted width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/github.com\/user-attachments\/assets\/b76a2c51-b162-475c-ab98-008881114820\"><br>\n<\/video><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"comment-titles\" id=\"comment-titles\" ><a class=\"heading-link\" href=\"#comment-titles\">Comment titles<span class=\"heading-hash pl-2 text-italic text-bold\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Each Copilot code review comment now contains a title concisely describing what was found. These titles are used in the aforementioned overview comment&rsquo;s issue list and as at-a-glance descriptors of Copilot findings. This way you can prioritize the findings you want to look into first.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"screenshot of a Copilot code review comment with a brief title at the top\" src=\"https:\/\/github.com\/user-attachments\/assets\/64f36b18-7856-4900-85e4-0cbc415b1dc1\"><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"comments-are-now-auto-resolved-more-intelligently\" id=\"comments-are-now-auto-resolved-more-intelligently\" ><a class=\"heading-link\" href=\"#comments-are-now-auto-resolved-more-intelligently\">Comments are now auto-resolved more intelligently<span class=\"heading-hash pl-2 text-italic text-bold\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.blog\/changelog\/2026-09-11-auto-resolution-and-analysis-updates-in-copilot-code-review\/#%e2%9c%85-automatic-resolution-of-addressed-comments\">New auto-resolution capabilities<\/a> allow GitHub Copilot to resolve its own comments based on whether they were addressed between reviews. 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